Synonyms of the word knife


KNIFEARM - INJURE - PROJECTION - STAB - TONGUE - WEAPON - WOUND

knife

  • n. A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or…
  • n. A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too…
  • n. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
  • v. (transitive) To cut with a knife.
  • v. (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge…
  • v. (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
  • v. (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
  • v. (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut.

arm

  • n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
  • n. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
  • n. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
  • n. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object,…
  • n. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
  • n. A branch of an organization.
  • n. (figuratively) Power; might; strength; support.
  • n. (baseball, slang) A pitcher.
  • n. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
  • n. A group of patients in a medical trial.
  • v. To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
  • v. To supply with arms or limbs.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
  • n. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
  • n. (in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia.
  • v. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
  • v. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
  • v. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
  • v. (figuratively) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
  • v. To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

injure

  • v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
  • v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
  • v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

projection

  • n. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
  • n. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
  • n. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide…
  • n. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
  • n. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
  • n. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
  • n. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth…
  • n. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
  • n. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
  • n. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
  • n. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

stab

  • n. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
  • n. A wound made by stabbing.
  • n. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
  • n. (informal) An attempt.
  • n. Criticism.
  • n. (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
  • n. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle…
  • v. (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
  • v. (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
  • v. (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used…
  • v. (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

tongue

  • n. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved…
  • n. Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or…
  • n. (metonymically) A language.
  • n. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
  • n. (obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
  • n. (obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
  • n. (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
  • n. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot, so called because it resembles…
  • n. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into…
  • n. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
  • n. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
  • n. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
  • n. The clapper of a bell.
  • n. (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
  • n. A small sole (type of fish).
  • n. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper…
  • n. (music) A reed.
  • v. (music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with…
  • v. (slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
  • v. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
  • v. To join by means of a tongue and groove.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.

weapon

  • n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
  • n. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
  • n. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.

wound

  • n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
  • n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
  • n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
  • v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
  • v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.

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